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Subject: Re: subnetmask-need to add something
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 19:27:30 -0400
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   Your looking for the netmask which is the subnetmask.   

its displayed in hex
right after netmask


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Loszewski" <stealth215@mediaone.net>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 7:20 PM
Subject: RE: subnetmask-need to add something


> Yea, I am reading the broadcast, lol, subnet then, I think that's what
> I'm looking for, am I right?
> 
> Dave
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dru [mailto:genisis@istar.ca] 
> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 7:18 PM
> To: David Loszewski
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: RE: subnetmask-need to add something
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, David Loszewski wrote:
> 
> > For example in my rc.conf file my netmask is set to 255.255.0.0 but
> when
> > I do ifconfig it says that it's 192.168.0.255.255
> <snip>
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> Are you sure you're not reading the broadcast address instead? The mask
> should be written in hex, so if your mask is 255.255.0.0 it'll look like
> 0xffff0000
> 
> Dru
> 
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